[HPFGU-Movie] Re: ?? for all who read all bks and saw all movies:

[Valerie Flowe]

On Dec 18, 2007, at 3:21 PM, treeshahmom280 wrote:
>
>  My husband GREATLY missed the whole "Weasley is our King"
>  Quiddich parts, as he thought it would help lighter the otherwise
>  darkness of the film. He also thought that Grimmald Place
>  should have been in a more "seedy" part of London, not in such
>  a nice, neat neighborhood. I personally saw it as more like the
>  old brownstones in New York CIty, rather than how it was shown
>  in the movie.
>
>  My biggest part missed was St. Mungos, visiting Mr. Weasley
>  there and finding out about Neville's parents that way, rather than
>  just Harry and Neville briefly talking about it in the Room of Req.
>
>  Trish in NM

I'm getting confused. I thought Weasley is our King WAS in OotP 
(because in the book isn't that when Ron was kicking butt at Quidditch 
while Harry and Hermione were off meeting Grawp in the forest?)
But I was just skimming HBP and that is when Ron does great with the 
Felix potion. And when Ron and Hermione are prefects, right? Or am I 
getting it all confused?

I also reread the St. Mungos scene with Neville's mom giving him the 
empty Droobles wrapper. So sad! Instead they opted to have Mr. Weasley 
come home on Christmas day and cutting the whole Mungos thing out. I 
thought it would've been amusing to see Lockhart in there, still 
signing autographs...git!

Reading the books gives so much more insight into these characters. 
Though Yates did a good job of getting emotional range out of Dan in 
this installment, the book shows how alienated he is feeling, and how 
scared he is about the idea of Voldie infiltrating his mind. He feels 
tainted, dirty; is imagining what it would be like if V erupted from 
his head like Quirrel did. Poor kid!!!

My biggest disappointment is the cutting of the 'Snape's Worst Memory' 
in the movie. And to not give us anymore in the DVD extras is 
inexcusable. If you go back and reread that chapter in OotP it would've 
played so well on screen. Harry's dad showing off to Lily by the water. 
Antagonizing Snape, Lily coming to the rescue. Snape turning on her, 
out of sheer embarrassment, poor kid! And then Harry in the fire 
talking to Lupin and Sirius about James. That was all character 
building. They could've added that in without having to make Sirius the 
bad guy (earlier scene when he says "You're not like James after all!" 
could've stayed out. But certainly Jo, IF she read the whole script, 
should've insisted they leave Lily in there. It's going to make the 
ending of DH disjointed if they just spring the Lily/Snape connection 
on the viewing audience. And James is the good guy again, Loose ends, 
people!

And yes, I agree that there are many who watch the movies, but don't 
read the books. As a matter of fact, that'd make a fascinating poll!

My husband, who falls in that category, actually said he thinks OotP is 
the best installment yet. AND he thinks JKR should write a Marauders 
backstory book. HA!!! My obsession is paying off! You don't know how 
long he's been dissing me for my l'il (well, huge) attraction to the 
Potter universe! LOL...

Valerie